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▪ I. whop, n. colloq. or vulgar.|hwɒp|
Also 5 whapp, 9 whap, wop.
[f. next. Cf. wap n.1]
An act of whopping; a heavy blow or impact; a bump.
c1440York Myst. xxxiii. 199 For a whapp so he whyned and whesid And ȝitt no lasshe to þe lurdan was lente.
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Whop, Whap, a heavy blow. 1895Kipling in Youth's Compan. 19 Sept. 442/4 Then he..drew up with a doleful wop! wop! wop! by the side of the great forty-five-ton, six-wheel coupled,..Number Twenty-five. 1899W. S. Churchill River War I. xiii. 423 The wop! of the distant explosion came back, like the echo of the report. 1905H. G. Wells Kipps i. iv. §1 ‘I was coming downhill,’..explained the bicyclist... ‘I came rather a whop.’
▪ II. whop, v. (adv.)|hwɒp|
Forms: 5 whappe, 6, 9 whap, 8– whop, (9 wap, wop).
[Variant of wap v.1: see wh.]
1. trans. To cast, pull out, etc. violently; to take or put suddenly. dial.
c1400Destr. Troy 4743 The grekes..With alblasteris also amyt full streght, Whappet in wharles, whellit the pepull. 14..Sir Beues (N.) 1899 [Beues is swerd anon] out whappid. 1721Ramsay Ode to the Ph— 55 Frae her fair Finger whop a Ring. 1725― Gentle Sheph. iii. ii, He..whops out a Book. 1829Brockett N.C. Gloss. (ed. 2), Whopt, Whupt, put, placed—embracing the idea of whipped. ‘He whopt his foot on't.’ 1904Westm. Gaz. 19 Nov. 5/2 He just whopped up the papers out of my han' an' away wi' him.
†b. intr. To beat, throb; = quap v. Obs.
c1440Partonope 6446 (Univ. Coll. MS.) His hert so sore ganne whappe tho.
2. trans. To strike with heavy blows; to beat soundly, flog, thrash, belabour (a person or animal; rarely, an inanimate object). colloq. or vulgar.
1575Depos. Durham (Surtees) 292 The said James contynewed in his raidge, bragging and swerynge, and said that he wold ‘whapp his coott.’ a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Whop, Whap, to beat severely. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxxv, ‘Ain't nobody to be whopped for takin' this here liberty, sir?’ said Mr. Weller. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy xviii, Half a dozen strapping fellows carrying..tea-trays which they whopped after the manner of a Chinese gong. 1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxvii, ‘If you'll come across,..and take your coat off, I'le give you such a wapping as you've never had since the last time I did it’..‘Wap one of your own weight,’ Mr. Snapper said. 1869W. S. Gilbert ‘Bab’ Ball., Prince Agib xv, I was fastened to the floor, While a mercenary wopped me with a will! 1890Henty With Lee in Virg. xviii, Mother would whop me if I came back without the basket.
b. fig. To overcome, vanquish, defeat utterly (with literal blows, or in a contest of any kind); hence, to surpass or excel greatly: = beat v.1 10. colloq. or vulgar.
1836[Hooton] Bilberry Thurland I. 342 He comed to be a reg'lar cock o' th' walk, for he whopped all th' cocks they could bring to him. 1851Kingsley Yeast ix, Fourteen men..as'll play the whole vale to cricket, and whap them. 1865J. Hatton Bitter Sweets iii, Nelson, as was a British General and wopped the French.
3. The vb.-stem used as adv.: With a ‘whop’; with a sudden movement or impact; ‘bump’, ‘flop’. Also as int.
1812W. Tennant Anster F. iv. xxix, Whap! there sinks another! 1870E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. xviii, In less time than you can think, wop comes a big black thing down..as big as the stone of a cheese-press. 1905H. G. Wells Kipps i. vi. §6 He sat on the edge of the bed in profound meditation, and his boots fell ‘whop’ and ‘whop’ upon the floor, with a long interval between each ‘whop.’
▪ III. whop(e
obs. ff. hoop n.1 and v.1, whoop. |